
MFA Publications
Neil Aitken
MFA 2007
http://www.neil-aitken.com/
Publications
- The Lost Country of Sight, poetry collection, Anhinga Press, 2008
- "enumeration," poem, Ninth Letter Journal, 2008
- "comment" poem, ReDactions (Issue 8/9)
- "Letter Fifty," poem DMQ Review, Spring/Summer 2007
- Five poems in Completely Mixed Up: An Asian North American Mixed Race Anthology, 2007
Awards/Honors
- The Lost Country of Sight, poetry, Anhinga Press 2008, selected as the winner of the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry
- Two Pushcart nominations for poetry, 2007
Amalia Alvarez
MFA 2008
Publications
- "Linseed Oils Loosen and Spin", Caesura, The City University of New York, Staten Island literary journal
- "If I Was Gonna..." poem, Cipactli, the Raza Studies Journal 2008
Interviews/Performances
- Moe Green Poetry Hour, Guest Poet, www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/ Los Angeles, CA, March 1, 2009
- Heron Studios Gallery Opening, Featured Poet, Aston, PA, November 14, 2008
- University of California Davis, Chicano Popular Culture Course, May 15, 2008
- Hip Hop Califest, UCR, Riverside, CA, April 30, 2008
- San Bernardino Sun, San Bernardino, CA, April 29, 2008
- Colorado State University Latina Empowerment Speaker Series, April 17, 2008
- UCR Chancellor's Office Arts Day, UCR ARTS Building, Riverside, CA, November 2007
- Cinco De Mayo Festival, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA, May 3, 2007
Awards/Honors
- Second runner-up, poetry, "Is it Time Yet?", Hayden's Ferry Review Holiday Blog Contest; North Country Institute for Writers of Color, Tuition Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY July 11-13 2008
- University of California, Riverside, Gluck Fellowship Summer 2007
- University of California, Riverside, Tomas Rivera Fellowship 2006
- Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, Honorable Mention for "Revolutionary Women Are More Beautiful," San Francisco, CA 2006
Vicki Barras Tulacro
MFA 2009 (in progress)
Publications
- "Roommates" & "Sever" Chaffey Review, Vol. II, May 2009
- "Inside Out", Chaffey Review, Vol. I, January 2009
- "Tingle" Semana de Mujer Journal, 2009
- "When There was Here" Pacific Review, Vol. 26, 2008
- "Inside Out" & "In One Act" Metamorphoses Anthology, Spring 2008
- "For Softer Skin" The Pacific Review Vol. 25, 2007
- "Easter, 1990" Separation Anthology, Spring 2007
Bonnie Bolling
MFA 2010 (in progress)
bonnieandclyd@hotmail.com
Publications
- Poetry in The Cortland Review, Rattle, Pearl, The Apple Valley Review, Poetic iversity
Awards/Honors
- Donald Drury Award for both fiction and poetry
- Finalist for The Rita Dove Poetry Prize
Abbie Bosworth
MFA 2008
Productions
- Glass Eye, short story in Crate, Spring 2006
- Left Luggage, Production Finalist, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Cedar City, Utah, 2007
Awards/Honors
- Gluck Fellowship for the Arts, Winter & Summer 2007
Sherry Brandon
MFA 2004
http://www.sherrybrandon.com
Publications
- "The Cream-Colored Nightmare," Mosaic, 2002
- "Sightless Light," Rhapsoidia, Issue 1, 2002
- "Run Watcha Brung," Atomic Sandbox, comic book, 2005
- "Roof Kitty," Atomic Sandbox, comic book, 2006
- "SuperZeroes," (with Brian Compton), Atomic Sandbox, graphic novel, 2007
Productions
- "Just What the Doctor Ordered." Playworks, UCR, 2001
- "Go To Hell, Calvin Klein." Playworks, UCR, 2002
- "I Am Jimmy." Playworks, 2004
- "Lunchy Libre: A Sandwich Worth Fighting For," short film, 2006
- "My 20s Took A Holiday and I Wasn't Invited," short documentary, 2007
- "I Have a Korean Mother!" short film, 2007
- "12.24.50" documentary, 2009
Interviews
- "Acting on Issues: As playwrights, UCR students find their voices and express their concerns on stage." The Press-Enterprise, 08/18/2002
Awards/Honors
- Maxell H. Gluck Fellowship in the Arts, 2003
- Harry Lawton Award in Screenwriting, 2005
Angela Thompson-Brenchley
(publishing as A.N. Teibe)
MFA 2010 (in progress)
Publications
- "Hover & Grasp", Ekphrasis, forthcoming "Sightless Light," Rhapsoidia, Issue 1, 2002
- "In Memoriam of Myself", The Pacific Review
- The Click of Degree", "Past the Edges", "wither, blossom, scatter", Metamorphoses
- "Birds", "Focused", Separation
- "Grandfather's Garden in Oil", "Alone", "Two Kinds of Waves", Muse
- "After the Freeze", The Pacific Review
- "Group Therapy", second place Utah State University Scholars Day Awards
Interviews
- Interview with DeWitt Henry, founder of Ploughshares literary magazine
Originally published in The Pacific Review Reprinted at http://www.dewitthenry.com/works.htm
Awards/Honors
- Grant Recipient to attend Iowa Summer Writing Festival, 2006 & 2007
Ching-In Chen
MFA 2009 (in progress)
Publications
- The Heart's Traffic, novel in poems, Red Hen Press 2009
- Two poems in Yellow As Tumeric, Fragrant as Cloves anthology, Deep Bowl Press, 2009
- "The Sky's Full Contents," poem, Monday Night, 2009
- "The Origins of the Chinky Font", Hyphen Magazine (#16, Consumption)
- Two poems, Fifth Wednesday Journal, 2009 & 2008
- "With," poem, Iron Horse Literary review, 2008
- "Thousand Year Egg", Water~Stone Review, 2008
- Four poems in Poemeleon, "Persona Poem"Issue, 2008
- Three poems in OCHO 16 (print companion to MiPOesias) 2008
- "Disjuncted Desert: some haibun," poem, Phantom Seed, 2008
- "After Virginia Tech," poem, Capital Bookfest's Family Pictures
- "It's a Bird, It's a Plane ... It's a Hindu Goddess?" non-fiction, Hyphen Magazine 2007
- Four non-fiction pieces, Hyphen Magazine
- "fob," poem, Trans issue of Tea Party 2007
- "tale," poem, CRATE, 2007
- "Starfish 2," poem, Growing Up Girl: Voices from Marginalized Spaces, 2006
Online Publications
- Two poems in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, 2009
- "Disciple," poem, Sunday Salon, 2009
- Four poems in Poemeleon, "Persona Poem" Issue, 2008
- "From New Orleans." Guest Blog for E. Ethelbert Miller's The E-Mag: A Sunday Kind of Love, 2006
Productions
- Roundtable discussion and performance/reading, "Disrupting the Page: Hybridity & Asian American Poetics," Association of Asian American Studies Conference, 2009
- The Geisha Interviews, regional finals, KCACTF Cauble's Corner/New Play Development 2009
- We Will Not Be Moved: A Story of Oakland Chinatown, a film. 2004
Awards/Honors
- One Pushcart nomination for poetry, 2009
- Scholarship Competition Winner, Writer Conferences and Center, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2007
- Honorable Mention for "Two River Girls," Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award, 2007
- Fellowship, Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, 2007
- Zora Neale Hurston Award Recipient, Naropa Summer Writing Program, 2006
- 2nd place, "War," People Before Profit Poetry Prize, 2006
Mary Copeland
MFA 2007
Publications
- Clocks We Watch, Plainview Press, 2008
- Ovation Road, Plain View Press 2008
- Poetry published in the following journals: Muse, Pudding, Arrowsmith, Pearl, The Pacific Review, Epicenter, The Sulphur River Review, Wednesday, Spillway and Left Behind.
Awards/Honors
- Teaching Assistant of the Year, UC Riverside, 2006/2007
- Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize, 2007
- Ocean Award, Second Place Poetry, 2005
- Cordell-Briggs Writing Award, (Poetry) Volume IX, Issue 1, 1995
- Society of American Pen Women, Honorable Mention, 1998
Kevin Cramer
MFA 2008
Productions
- Bacciarelli (AKA The Bacciarelli Issue), stage play, Ruskin Group Theatre 2007, and UCR mainstage 2008
- Searching for Mari, stage play, Pittsburgh New Works Festival, 2002
- As far as Spokane, stage play, Bloomington, Indiana, 2004
- Beartooth, stage play, Pittsburgh New Works Festival 2004; also produced at Outlaws Underground Theatre, State College, PA, 2005
- Boom, stage play, Outlaws Underground Theatre, State College, PA, 2003, and as part of the Patriot Acts Festival at the Alliance Repertory Co., Burbank, CA, 2004
Interviews
- "Playwright tries to lighten up at UCR," The Press-Enterprise, Jan. 25 2008 http://www.inthenews.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=16013
Awards/Honors
- Samuel Goldwyn Award 2007
- Searching for Mari nominated for best playwright and best production at the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, 2002
- As far as Spokane, finalist, Reva Shiner full-length play contest, Bloomington, Indiana, 2004
- Beartooth, stage play, nominated for best production, Pittsburgh New Works Festival, 2004
Alba Cruz-Hacker
MFA 2007
Publications
- "How to Seal a Mouth," poem, Kaleidowhril Literary Journal, Winter 2008
- No Honey for Wild Beasts, poetry collection, Plain View Press, 2008
- Five poems selected for the "Senior Editor's Choice" of Poetry Magazine, Winter 2007
Awards/Honors
- UC Riverside Poet Laureate Award, 2007
- Thomas Rivera Selection for Poetry, 2007
- Pushcart Prize Nominee
Kate Durbin
MFA 2008
Publications
- The Ravenous Audience, poetry collection, Black Goat Press/Akashic Books, 2009
- Amelia Earhart: Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot (Poetry Chapbook; Dancing Girl Press, 2009)
- "Brief Crossing" (poem) in elimae
- "Unlearning to Read," "S&D", and "Captives" (poems) in diode
- "36 fillette" and "Sex is Comedy" (poems) in Drunken Boat
- "A Real Young Girl" (poem) in The Ledge
- "Swell" (poem) in Boxcar Poetry Review
- "Desgracia" and "Desert Fall" (poems) in Moondance
- Review of Karen Harryman's Auto Mechanic's Daughter in Boxcar Poetry Review
Interviews
- Interview with Gabriela Jauregui in Asian American Poetry and Writing
- Interview with Chris Abani in The Elegant Variation
Cristian Flores
MFA 2007
Publications
- "Whirl" published on poetry.com http://www.poetry.com/dotnet/P7141456/999/1/display.aspx
- Her work has appeared in the UC Riverside Mosaic Literary Journal
- UCR Magazine: The Journey, Volume 2, Issue 1, Borders
Awards/Honors
- First runner-up for poetry in the Hayden's Ferry Review Holiday Blog Contest, for the coming-of-age poem, "Red Season"
- Clara Peretzman Scholarship for Immigrant Women, 2006
Cupid Flowers
MFA 2009 In-Progress
Awards/Honors
- First Place, "The Hands of Time," (the first ten pages), Hang 10 Screenwriting Contest
Holly Miller Gaglio
MFA 2009 (in progress)
Publications
- "Westbound," short story, Fresh Ink, December 2008
Awards/Honors
- First prize, Fiction, Inland Empire California Writers Club 2008 Writing Contest
Cuca Esteves
MFA 2006
Productions
- The Rise and Fall of Irvine Meadows West, documentary screened in Los Angeles at the Downtown and Indie Fest
Adam Gallari
MFA 2009 (in progress)
Publications
- "Reading Rilke," short story, Ampersand Review, Spring 2009
- "Chasing Adnois," short story, anderbo.com, Fall 2008
- "No Cause for Concern," short story, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Spring 2008
Awards/Honors
- Nominated for a storysouth Million writers award
Molly Gross
MFA 2008
www.inlandtheatreworks.com
Productions
- Shakespeare and the City (commissioned), stage play, The Fictitious Theatre Company, San Bernardino, CA, Summer 2007, mainstage production
Interviews
- "Theatre Company to Present Two Plays," The Sun, August 16, 2007 http://www.sbsun.com/columnists/ci_6635183?fromrss=1
Awards/Honors
- Graduate Division Fellowship, UC Riverside, 2006-07
- Inland Theatre League Award for performance, 2007
- Maxell H. Gluck Fellowship in the Arts, 2008
- FTC Inland Theatre Works 2008 "3D Theatre Festival" 2nd Place Prize for Best Original 10-Minute Play
Kaitlin (Kaite) Hillenbrand
MFA 2008
Publications
- "Driving Away", Kestrel, expected 2009
- "Siddhartha's Pinwheel", Kestrel, expected 2009
Reviews
- Review of David Tucker in Review Revue
Vanessa Hua
MFA 2009 (in progress)
www.vanessahua.com
Publications
- "The Art of Chinese Cooking," article, Newsweek, June 30, 2008
- "For What They Shared," short story, River Styx, Fall 2008
- "What We Have is What We Need," short story, American Literary Review, 2008
- "The Responsibility of Deceit," short story, Cream City Review, fiction contest winner, 2006
Online publications
- "Staking Claim," Fiction Attic; "Like Reyes," VerbSap; "Gone Wild" and "How to Lose Your Two Best Friends," Salt River Review; "Absence," Blood Orange Review
Awards/Honors
- First prize, Atlantic Monthly fiction contest, 2008
- Fiction contest winner 2006, Cream City Review, "The Responsibility of Deceit"
- Honorable Mention, Stanford magazine fiction contest 2005, "Cruise Control"
- 2006 James Madison Freedom of Information Award, Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter
- 2007 and 2008, Asian American Journalists Association, National Journalism Awards
Interviews
- UC Riverside student unlocks path to fame, March 27, 2008 http://www.pe.com/localnews/riverside/stories/PE_News_Local_D_vanessa27.9c8b8b.html
Paul Jacques
MFA 2009 (in progress)
Productions
- Mercury, Mars, and Mayhem, play, finalist in the Isis New Play Competition, 2008
- Commissioned to write an adaptation of Frankenstein for Murrieta Repertory Theatre, 2008
Interviews
- "Backstage With: Actor, director, teacher Paul Jacques," The Press-Enterprise, March 18, 2008
- http://www.inthenews.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=16353
Awards/Honors
- Two Inland Theatre League Award for performance, 2008
Gabriela Jauregui
MFA 2007
http://www.gabrielajauregui.net
Publications
- Controlled Decay, poetry collection, Black Goat/Akashic Books, 2008
- "Blood Sausage" (poem) published in Hayden's Ferry Review, special themed issue on The Grotesque, June 2008
- "Apuntes on Orientalism in/and Latin American Literature: Darao, Tablada, Borges, Paz and Sarduy" (article) published in The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, March-June issue, 2008
- "Pull the Trigger!" article published in The Aesthetics of Risk: SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III (Welchman, John C. ed., JRP Ringier, 2008)
- "Daniel Alarcon and Alex Espinoza" (interview) published in BOMB magazine (2008): http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/3072
- Ball Game (novel excerpt) published in Guernica Magazine (guest edited by Francisco Goldman, October 2007): http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/455/ball_game_a_novel_excerpt_1/
- "Thoughts on Failure, Idealism, and Art: A Symposium" (interview) in Failure! Experimental Aesthetic and Social Practices. (Antebbi, Nicole, Dickey, Colin and Herbst, Robbie, eds., Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2006)
- "Necropolis: Exhuming the Works of Teresa Margolles" (article) published in: Muerte Sin Fin: Teresa Margolles Exhibition Catalogue (Distributed Art Publishers and Museum for Moderne Kunst and Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004)
- "Eat it Alive and Swallow it Whole!: Re-savoring Cannibal Holocaust as a Mockumentary." (article) published in InVisible Culture (Issue no.7, University of Rochester, Winter 2004)
Reviews and interviews
- http://www.elpasotimes.com/living/ci_
- http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/06/books/poetry-roundup-june08
- http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2008/06/small-press-spotlight-gabriela-jauregui.html
- http://haydensferryreview.blogspot.com/
Awards.Honors
- Soros New American Fellowship for 2007-08
Eva Konstantopoulos
MFA 2009 (in progress)
http://www.evakonstantopoulos.blogspot.com
Publications
- "We Are Daughters Of The Sun," Slab: Sound And Literary Art Book, Issue 2, Spring 2007
- "Other is the Sky," lotus.zine, Volume 4, Spring 2007
Online Publications:
- "You May Get Lost," Why Vandalism? Feb/March 2008 Double Issue
- "Stranger Stranger," Storyglossia, Issue 25, December 2007
- "A Borrowed Life," Word Riot, May 2007 Issue
- "We Create Earth As We Sleep," Rumble, March 2007
- "Joy," Rumble, March 2007
- "Living in Hotels," Conte, Issue 1, May 2005
Awards/Honors
- Circleframe Screenwriting Award for Best Screenplay, "The Virgin of Poughkeepsie," 2008 Gotham Screen International Film Festival
Rebecca O'Connor
MFA 2006
http://www.rebeccakoconnor.com
Publications
- A Parrot for Life, Non-fiction book, TFH Publications, 2007
- Lift, memoir, Red Hen Press (forthcoming; excerpts in Colorado Desert (The Coachella Valley) Anthology edited by Ruth Nolan,) Heyday Books, 2007
- "Postcard from Above," article, West Magazine, December 2006
- "Mercy," South Dakota Review, Summer 2006
- How Should the World Respond to Natural Disasters? Non-fiction, At Issue Series, Greenhaven Press, 2006
- Is There Life After Death? Non-fiction, At Issue Series, Greenhaven Press, 2005
- "Pantry Check," Los Angeles Times Magazine, November 2005
- Uniquely Nevada, Non-fiction, Heinemann, 2004
- Acid Rain (Overview Series), Lucent Books, 2003
- Falcon's Return, Avalon Career Romance, June 2002
Interviews
- Interviewed by Patricia McConnell on NPR, October 6, 2007: http://www.wpr.org/PETS/index.htm
Awards/Honors
- Pushcart Prize Nominee 2007
- The Albert and Elaine Borchard Fellowship to the Tomales Bay Writers' Workshops
- The Carlisle Family Scholarship to the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Workshops
- Fellowship to the San Juan Writers' Workshops
- McQuern Fellowship in Nonfiction at the University of California, Riverside
Briandaniel Oglesby
MFA 2009 (in progress)
Publications
- "Cabeza de Pedo" short story published in Gertrude, 2009 (Forthcoming)
- "Family Kleenex (tm)," short story, ZZYZYVA Spring 2008
Productions
- "Trainwhistles" selected to a have a reading in the SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL at the 2009 KCACTF National Festival, at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, April 13-18
- Ninety-Nine Cents Plus, regional finals, KCACTF Cauble's Corner/New Play Development, 2009
- Game, KCACTF regional finals, ten-minute play entry, 2008
- Paris Park, Playwrights at the Loft in Redlands reading, 2008
- Starry Night, FTC Inland Theatre Works ten-minute play performance, 2008
- My Avisia Winger, Barnyard Theatre mainstage production, 2004
Awards/Honors
- Pushcart Prize Nomination
Victoria Patterson
MFA 2006
www.victoriapatterson.net
Publications
- "The First and Second Time" short story in Freight Stories no. 5, March/April 2009
- "Winter Formal" short story in The Southern Review, Volume 45:1, Winter 2009
- Drift, collection of short stories, Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Trade Back Original, 2009
- "Johnny Hitman" short story in Santa Monica Review, Spring 2008
- "The Rise and Fall of Fuzzy Fizziwig" short story in The Florida Review, Spring 2008
- "Joe/Christina," short story, Snake Nation Review, 2007
- "Sweet Rolls and Vodka," short story, The Sun, July 2006
- "Parking Far Away," short story, Crate Magazine, 2006
- "Thighs," short story, Quality Women's Fiction, 2005
- "Baby Talk", "The Soccer Banner", "Morphine and Mother's Milk," short stories, Literary Mama 2001, 2002, 2003
- "Morphine and Mother's Milk," HipMama, 1999
Interviews
Awards/Honors
- The Abraham Polonsky Award in Fiction 2006
- Thesis Fellowship for Spring/Summer 2006
- Squaw Valley Scholarship, University of California, Riverside, 2006
- Snake Nation Press Nonfiction Award, 2005
- Gluck Fellowship, 2004, 2005
- Dean's Fellowship Award, 2004, 2005
Natalie Rohwer
MFA 2009 (in progress)
Publications
- "Spilling the Beans," short story, Kalliope, 2007
Richard Sanchez
MFA 2008
http://www.richardasanchez.com/
Publications
- "The Girl Next Door," short story, Tin House, Summer 2006
- "Basketball Gods," short story, The Pacific Review, Spring 2005
Kandie St.Germaine-Kelly
MFA 2006
Publications
- Closet Drama, poetry collection, Bear Star Press 2001
- Poems published in over thirty literary magazines, including Arshile, The Sonora Review, Puerto del Sol, and Artful Dodge
Productions
- Stage plays for youth, Dinner in Oz, A Midsummer Night's Teen, After Ever Happily, and Paper Umbrellas published by Eldridge Plays and Musicals
Awards/Honors
- California State University Creative Writing Program Award for Poetry
Valerie Stulman
MFA 2007
Productions
- Costo, 10 minute play about Native American activists Rupert and Jeannette H. Costo, as part of Grier Living Histories, funded through the City of Riverside, CA, production expected Sept. 2008
- One Final Moment, staged reading, one act play, new play development, The Performance Loft, Redlands, CA, May 14, 2008
- Santa Angel, 10 minute play reading, new play development, Skylight Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, April 27, 2008
- The Booth, staged reading, one-act play, new work development, Theatre 150, Ojai, CA, November 2007
- Invited Production, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Region VIII festival, Cedar City, Utah, February 2007
- Incomplete Family, one-act play, Playworks, University of California, Riverside, June 2007
- I Do, I Don't and Lunchtime Angel, original ten minute plays produced in Retracing the Declaration of Sentiments, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, February 2006
Online Publications
- "Femme/s, Film/s, Noir/e: Revisions" paper e-published in California Digital Library, e-Scholarship repository, http://repositories.cdlib.org/csw/
- INsider Magazine interview with Bruce Campbell, http://www.insidermag.net/id141.html
Interviews
- Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA - Summer 2006, interviewed as part of article for Maxwell H. Gluck Inaugural Summer Camp for the Arts.
Awards/Honors
- Semi-Finalist, (with John Shannon, MFA 2006) Disney/ABC TV Writers Fellowship competition, 2009
- Animal Passion, Screenwriting Award, Riverside International Film Festival, 2008
- The Booth, Best of Festival Award, one-act play, invited production, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Region VIII festival, Meritorious Recognition, Cedar City, Utah, February 2007
- Hush Little Baby, Honorable Mention, 75th annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition, 2006, Television/Movie Script category
- Triggers, Honorable Mention, 75th annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition, 2006, Playwriting category
- Family Place, Semi-finalist, 2001, Chesterfield Screenwriting competition
- Multiple Maxwell H. Gluck Graduate Fellowships, in Theatre, Department of Creative Writing/Writing for the Performing Arts, University of California, Riverside. Summer 2007, Fall 2006, Summer 2006, Spring 2006
- Multiple Maxwell H. Gluck Graduate Teaching Fellowships, Theatre, University of California, Riverside. 2006-2008
Jessi Sundell
MFA 2008
Productions
- A Little Angel Now, stage play, Barnyard Theatre, Davis CA, Summer 2008 mainstage production
Ky-Phong Tran
MFA 2007
www.frequentwind.com (writing)
www.aapw-la.org (magazine/arts organization)
Interviews
Awards/Honors
- "I Will Love You More Than I Can" and "A Thing Called Exodus" Finalists for 2008 Short Story Contest from Hyphen Magazine/Asian American Writers' Workshop
- Breadloaf Writer's Conference acceptances in 2007 and 2008 (Tution scholar finalist
- Maxwell H. Gluck Fellowship in the Arts, UC Riverside, 2006
- Rose/DeFillis Fiction Scholarship, Napa Valley Writers Conference, 2006
- Fiction Scholarship, Wesleyan Writers Conference, 2006
- Robert C. Byrd Scholarship, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, 2006
- New America Media Award for Art, Sports, and Entertainment category, 2006
- New America Media Award for Opinion-Editorial category, 2005
- Fiction Scholarship, Voices of Our Nation Writers Conference, 2005
- Graduate Division Fellowship, UC Riverside, 2005-06
Brenda Varda
MFA 2009 (in progress)
Productions
- Liquid, full-length, Unknown Theatre, Summer 2009
- What Pola Wants, one-act in L.A. Views, Company of Angels, 2009
- Things That Fall from the Sky, New Play Development Workshop, at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII, 2009
- Cyberlilly Seven, media performance piece, UCIRA conference and Bootleg Theatre, 2008
- Fables du Theatre, full-length play,Unknown Theatre, 2008
- Jackalling, one-act in L.A. Views, Company of Angels, 2008
- Insert Objections Here, play, Mid America Theatre Conference Fringe Festival, 2008
- Things That Fall From the Sky, KCACTF National Playwriting Program ten-minute play regional finalist, 2009
- American College Theatre Festival: play presentation -Two Chairs With Adam and Sophie,- 2008
- Impossible Movies, EdgeFest Los Angeles - Writer/Performer, 2007
- Big Baby, Unknown Theater - One-Act Festival, 2006
- The Spanish Cafe, L.A. History Project - Writer/Co-director
- Multi-media theatre piece - produced by 24th Street Theatre
Papers
- Comparative Dramatics Conference 2009
- Fables du Theatre: Liminal Space, Narrative Disruption, Audience Reaction"
- Mid America Theatre Conference 2009 (The Poor Theater)
- "99-seats on 99-cents: the current state of small theatre in L.A."
- Comparative Dramatics Conference, Loyola Marymount, 2008
- Collision or Collusion with the Audience in Collage Dance Theatre's C'Opera
- (Dis) junctions, University of California, 2008
- panel and series of creative presentations entitled: "Creative Writing Across Campus Divides: Writers in Collaboration with Academic Researchers"
- Mid America Theatre Conference 2008 (Extreme Theatre symposium)
- "Process and Participation: Models from the Social Sciences for Collaborative and Devised Theatre (pedagogy)"
- "Extreme Collaboration in Devised Work for Small Theatre: Creating Viable Processes with Limited Resources (directing),
- "Postdramatic Theatre in the L.A. Police Academy: Collage Dance Theatre's C'Opera", (MATC academic journal review)
Awards/Honors
- KCACTF John Cauble National Playwriting Finalist, 2009
- Gluck Fellowship in the Arts, 2009
- Mellon Workshop grant - Convergence of Cultures: Scientific Realms and Creative Production, 2008
- UCR Humanities Fellowship, 2008
- Gluck Fellowship in the Arts, 2008
- Edge Fest Los Angeles, New Works Festival, 2007 Impossible Movies
- Los Angeles Conservancy, Performance Grant, Wilshire Words, 2005
- Los Angeles History Project, Performance Grant, 2005, The Spanish Cafe
Alexis Vergalla
MFA 2008
www.alexisv.wordpress.com
Publications
- "Letters Through Glass", Finishing Line Press, 2009
- "Issues of Translation," "Letter to Vallejo," "On Hearing an Uncertainty," poetry, Plankton Magazine, Vol 1, Summer 2007
- "The Way Things Disappear," poem, Damselfly Press, Winter 2008
- "Rusalka," poem, forthcoming, Tales of the Unanticipated
- "The Wolf and the Girl," poem, forthcoming, Goblin Fruit
- "The Translucent Nature of Irises," poetry sequence, Diode Poetry Online, Winter 2007
- "At the Zoo," poem, Eclectica Magazine, Vol 5 N 4, Oct/Nov 2001
Interviews
- The Moe Green Poetry Hour Hosted By Rafael F.J. Alvarado & Kate Durbin
Mariah Young
MFA 2008
- Squaw Valley Writing Workshop, 2008